MacBook Pro Benchmarks

jfpoole writes "Geek Patrol has benchmarked a MacBook Pro and a PowerBook G4 using Geekbench, their benchmarking utility. It's impressive to see how well the MacBook Pro performs compared to the PowerBook G4 (at least when it comes to Universal Binary performance)." Their benchmarks aren't particularly surprising, and they lack the most important benchmark: Frames Per Second during Molten Core Combat (or as it is more commonly referred to since I made it up 5 seconds ago, the FPSDMCCMark, which is the only number I'm waiting for).

molten core combat

[la htris]

rofl. so true.
not really surprised though, i think the major objection to intel chips for most applications was stability not speed. ditto for the graphics cards. more boxes = more games = more devs on the cards.
props to the amusing summary though.

Amazing

[Anonymous Coward]

A new product that's an improvement over the model it replaces. Wow! That's news!

Slashdotted while still red

[winkydink]

Before the aricle even went live, the site was slashdotted. I guess the geek patrol got ambushed.

Maybe they should benchmark web servers next.

Hosted on a G4?

[Critter92]

Apparently Geekpatrol is hosted on a G4 Powerbook. Were it hosted on a Intellitosh it would have survived a bit longer.

Lame

[Eightyford]

No altivec. Less space than a Dell. Lame.

Re:It's nice to see improved benchmarks, but...

[realmolo]

Yeah, yeah.

You're not fooling anyone. We all know that every time you boot your antiquated G4, you think about selling one of your kidneys to buy a new MacBook.

Rationalization is a beatiful thing. ;)

Damn

[wackymacs]

Damn! I thought the MacBook Pro was going to be slower than the PowerBook G4...

Taco! Enough with the Molten Core references!

[thatguywhoiam]

Seems like (nearly) every time a Mac/Intel story pops up, CmdrTaco chimes in with some comment on WoW/Molten Core.

Dear Apple: Slashdot needs to review 5 of these indefinitely. Thank you XOXO ;) Seriously, i'm waiting for someone to give good benchmarks on these- especially testing for Warcraft. Now that it has a new Universal Binary I can't wait to see how it holds up against a modern windows machine.

'Not only did the new iMac wipe the floor with the old model in their tests, but using MacWorld's own test methodology would allow MacSpeedZone to conclude that the new Intel iMac is almost as fast as a PowerMac Quad G5.' I see only one way to solve this: Give me one. I'll run WoW on it, and decide.

I'm still waiting for the most important benchmark: frames per second in molten core combat.

We get it. You use your Mac for WoW.

Re:Amazing

[speed_of_light]

Who mods this crap funny anyway?

Re:It's nice to see improved benchmarks, but...

[cosmo7]

I'm glad I futureproofed it though.

You can't totally future-proof something. I think a better term would be future-resistant.

Re:Hosted on a G4?

[AnalystX]

Everything is bound to fail on G4. Oh, you mean the Apple hardware and not the television network.